There's no shortage of theories about why people get angry. My own view is that it happens for quite a few reasons. Some people want to harm themselves. Begin depressed often results in anger directed at oneself for feeling and begin powerless, and represents a wish for self-destruction. Some may want to achieve control. Whether arising from paralyzing fear or merely irritation that things are going differently than they want, anger is often used to intimidate in order to manipulate.Some people want to feel powerful.If they feel small,getting others to feel smaller makes them feel big in comparison. And some feel anger because they want to fight injustice. They feel outrage at an inequity committed against themselves or others.